The video is a slap against the Catholic Church’s teaching about abortion.Ĭhristianity is depicted as the old man and Nirvana is waiting for it to die. It depicts the anatomy of a female – with wings. The “heart shaped box” refers to a box given to Kurt by his wife Courtney Love, but it also refers to the female uterus as featured in the album’s title In Utero, Latin for “in the womb.” The tracks on the In Utero album reveal Kurt’s interest in human procreation, motherhood, procreative anatomy (“Heart Shaped Box,” “Rape Me,” “Milk It,” “Pennyroyal Tea” (an abortifacient). At 4:36, Krist Novoselic opens the blinds and lets the light in.At 3:54, David Grohl is reflecting the same heart shaped box into the camera.At 3:51, the little girl is back in white robes and holding an open heart shaped box.This section is “Kurt as Narcissist” section with close ups on him and even a fan blowing his hair (like in the 80s hair bands). At 3:05-3:41, the three members of Nirvana are in a room topped by a heart.At 2:59, we see the IV drip is not really morphine, but an aborted festus and Kurt suddenly appears in the hospital room with his guitar and with the little girl in black.She was innocent and pure (white) and now she is corrupt (black). At 2:57, the little girl is now in all black – like a little witch.At 2:52, the little girls pointy white hat falls into a black puddle and turns black – like a witches hat.

At 2:43, Kurt puts his hand over his eyes as if he’s closing his own eyes in death (rather ominous).At 2:15 Nirvana is now playing the creepy trees.At 1:58, the white robed girl appears and is now jumping up trying to reach the mitred old man on the cross.At 1:48, the old crucified man is now wearing a Catholic bishop’s mitre (a jeweled pointy hat) that is worn by Catholic pope’s and bishops.An overweight woman with human organs painted on her and with angel wings affixed to her back reaches out. The obese painted woman was not envisioned by Kurt Cobain but randomly added by Anton Corbijn to Kurt’s approval and delight.The second verse shows us a young girl in a white robe and peaked cap jumping and reaching for human fetuses hanging from creepy trees.Nirvana performs the song in the field of poppies, where Cobain’s face moves in and out of focus in the camera – with a lens that feels like a “nifty 50.”.The old man climbs onto a cross surrounded with crows.Suddenly the old man wearing a Santa hat is in a field of poppies – signifying the morphine which the old man is receiving through the IV drip.The video begins and ends with the band members in a hospital setting watching an old man lying in a bed over a black Latin cross on the floor and receiving a morphine IV drip.Anton said that the video was “15% mine” and 85% Cobain’s. Nirvana’s “Heart Shaped Box” music video was visually created by singer Kurt Corbain and directed by Anton Corbijn (director of videos for Depeche Mode’s “Enjoy the Silence” (1990) and U2’s “One – version 1” 1991). Kurt drew out images for the video and would fax them to Anton Corbijn. What is the meaning of the “Heart Shaped Box” Video by Nirvana? This post goes second by second through the video and provides a likely meaning based on the lyrics, imagery, and Kurt Cobain’s history:

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